Tonight's Shawnee Heights Board of Education meeting will be rescheduled for tomorrow, Wednesday, January 23 at 7:00 p.m. at the High School PD room.
Turn today into a volunteer day. What are you doing for others? #MLKDay
The Care Closet will be closed again this Saturday, January 19,2019, due to weather.
It's Board Appreciation Month and we want to give a special thank you to our Board of Education for everything they do! Would you like to know more about our BOE members? Check in next week to learn about each board member.
Mark Arts received more than 2,400 entries for the Eastern Kansas Scholastic Art Awards. Of those entries Staci Whiford was selected as Gold Key, and Chris Berry, Adelia Lawrenz and Adah Davis were selected at Honorable Mention. Congratulations to all the students!
Thank you to the Shawnee Heights Public Schools Foundation for hosting their Annual Winter Mixer on Friday. It was a nice staff event aimed to have fun with our fellow co-workers.
Practicing leadership skills at Berryton Elementary. They held an assembly this morning lead by students. It was announced that 103 students had perfect attendance last semester!
Due to the inclement weather that is predicted for this weekend, the Care Closet will be closed this Saturday, January 12, 2019.
Congratulations to our TWO 2019 Horizon Award recipients Olivia Basye and Riley Propps. Basye is a first grade teacher at Berryton and Propps teaches social studies at SHHS @SHHSThunderbird. We have amazing teachers at Shawnee Heights. #ShawneeHeightsProud #GreatDayToBeATbird
We're half way through the school year, already!
The holiday break is almost behind us but we can still dream of all the delicious sweets. Ann Wilhelm held a Holiday Baking Challenge where students were judged on quality, creativity and presentation. The train was pretty awesome and won the challenge!
Congratulations to Olivia, a 5th grade student, who won second place for her artwork at the 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Living the Dream Art competition!
Over 20 Shawnee Heights art students have been selected to represent the school at the Topeka Art Guild High School art show (5331 SW 22nd place). Come to the opening this Friday, January 4th from 5-8pm.
Corey Ballentine, SHHS alumni, was named the winner of the Cliff Harris Award as the nation's top small college defender. https://www.cjonline.com/sports/20181227/cliff-harris-national-honor-continues-awards-harvest-for-washburns-corey-ballentine
Reminder: Care Closet will be be closed December 22nd and 29th due to winter break.
High Schools students visited Tecumseh South earlier this week to read letters from Santa Claus.
Spelling Bees are being held throughout the district. SHMS students were nervous but excited to start their spelling adventure this afternoon.
SHHS students presented at the recent JEDO meeting and did a fantastic job. "Topeka, did you see that? This is your youth. Shawnee County, this is your youth. Our future is very bright" said Mayor De La Isla. https://youtu.be/9rlOgCLBXYg?t=9956
8th grade students at SHMS are learning all about the responsibilities of the real world today. Thank you to Go Topeka for helping bring an amazing program like Reality U to our students. Also, a big thank you to all the community volunteers that came out to help!
Tecumseh North students raised $1,428 for United Way and are the student campaign champs for the district 4 years running! They celebrated with a little sumo wrestling fun today.
